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The junior dev I've been unofficially mentoring for the past 6 months has now been assigned to me officially. On top of that, I got myself a second junior everybody neglected and was tasked to whip him in shape.

Next step is going to make a developer out of this fucker or die trying. And then I'm going to call several tech leads a cunt for hiring a junior dev and letting that person down for months.

Every junior deserves a stern, dedicated mentor, a thick affectionate whip on their back to correct their juniorly mistakes and all the support they deserve to grow into the merciless professionals you need to handle complex features beyond recoloring a button.
If you, as a tech lead, are unwilling to teach a junior, you shouldn't take the position of a tech lead, nor the salary.

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  • 5
    2d
    Should show that to the junior so he knows how to act when older
  • 4
    2d
    Thank you for your service, sir!
  • 3
    2d
    I took the position but not the salary, so it's ok 🥲
  • 2
    2d
    Sadly ppl tend to do bare minimum nowadays
  • 2
    2d
    This seems to be quite common. I started more than 4 years ago my professional career and so far, i did not have 1 senior who teached me in 2 different jobs.

    My first 'senior' in my first job took anywhere between 2-5 days to answer a question (heck, there were pull requests that were not reviewed for 9 months. She did got fired for other reasons)

    The second job, the "senior" developer has no experience in frontend development and i've been hired as frontend dev.
  • 2
    1d
    @BordedDev I'll probably go even further than that and make them do something together.(even then, the former junior is right next to my desk and gets to see everything I do to the new junior). I just need a few days to test the waters, I just don't have any clear idea right now because the situation developed quickly, but tbh I'd be a fool not to make the former junior play some sort of part. He's young... but he's equally talented and hard working; probably even more than I was at that point in my career. I just need to iron out the details a little bit.
  • 1
    1d
    > 'Every junior deserves a stern, dedicated mentor, a thick affectionate whip on their back to correct their juniorly mistakes and all the support they deserve to grow into the merciless professionals'.

    Precisely. WTF is w/ this coddling they're doing nowadays?
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